Episcopal Networks in Late Antiquity : : Connection and Communication Across Boundaries /

Episcopal Networks in Late Antiquity : : Connection and Communication Across Boundaries / / ed. by Carmen Angela Cvetković, Peter Gemeinhardt.

Recent studies on the development of early Christianity emphasize the fragmentation of the late ancient world while paying less attention to a distinctive feature of the Christianity of this time which is its inter-connectivity. Both local and trans-regional networks of interaction contributed to th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Bodin, Ariane,
Clark, Gillian,
Cvetković, Carmen Angela,
Engberg, Jakob,
Gemeinhardt, Peter,
Gwynn, David M.,
Knox, Daniel K.,
Leemans, Johan,
Manders, Erika,
Menze, Volker,
Mratschek, Sigrid,
Slootjes, Daniëlle,
Sterk, Andrea,
Toca, Madalina,
Wood, Jamie,
HerausgeberIn:
Cvetković, Carmen Angela,
Gemeinhardt, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte , 137
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 365 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: The Ties That Bind
  • Episcopal Nepotism in the Later Roman Empire (c. 350–450)
  • A New Approach to Ambrose of Milan’s Kinship
  • Influential Friends? Augustine’s Episcopal Networks
  • The Authority of a ‘Quasi-Bishop:’ Patronage and Networks in the Letters of Isidore of Pelusium
  • Patronage Networks in the Festal Letters of Athanasius of Alexandria
  • Bishops as Religious Mentors: Spiritual Education and Pastoral Care
  • Crossing the Boundaries: Networks and Manifestations of Christian Hospitality
  • Niceta of Remesiana’s Visits to Nola: Between Sacred Travel and Political Mission
  • Part 2: Episcopal Networks in Context
  • The Impact of the Laurentian Schism on Ennodius of Pavia’s Participation in Episcopal Networks
  • Building and Breaking Episcopal Networks in Late Antique Hispania
  • Macedonius, Constantius and the Changing Dynamics of Power
  • Caring for African Confessors in Exile: The Ministry of Numeria and Candida during the Decian Persecution (Cyprian, Epistulae 21–22)
  • The Impact of Geographical and Administrative Boundaries on Late Antique Bishops
  • Bishops and Mission Beyond the Frontiers: From Gothia to Nubia
  • List of Contributors
  • Index of Authors and Texts
  • Index of Ancient Places
  • Index of Modern Authors

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